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Best Soccer Skills Pepsi Challenge Winner 2001Egyptian Footballer
of the Year 2003 (Egyptian Football Association)Egyptian Footballer
of the Year 2001 (Akhbar El-Yom Poll)Best playmaker
in African cup 1996 in South AfricaSelected in
best team of African cup 2002Top scorer
of African Qualifications for African Cup of Nations 1998Best player
in Egyptian Super Cup 2000/2001

David Beckham
and a host of other top football stars have been humbled in a world soccer
skills challenge. The inaugural Pepsi challenge, which tested players'
passing, dribbling, shooting, ball control and juggling tricks, was won
by Egyptian club Zamalek's Hazem Emam.

The little-known
footballer beat Beckham and his Manchester United team-mate Dwight Yorke
into fifth and third place respectively. Nguyen Hong Son, a 30-year-old,
who plays for the Vietnamese Army took second place.

Also taking
part in the competition were Brazilians Rivaldo and Roberto Carlos, Argentine
star Juan Sebastian Veron and Portugal's Rui Costa. But the world's greatest
players proved no match for Emam, who amassed 111 points to win the competition.

Yorke, who
along with Beckham, won full marks for his ball-juggling skills was stunned
by the result. He told the News of the World: "I know what Becks, Veron
and Roberto Carlos are capable of, but Emam was a total surprise."

The tasks were
devised by Old Trafford boss Alex Ferguson, who said: "I purposely didn't
make the skills tests easy. "We can all take free-kicks and dribble - but
these test the person. "

Beckham's most
embarrassing moment came when he slipped over during the dribbling test.
He also finished joint second from bottom in the free-kicks discipline.And surprisingly,
Beckham could only achieve 15 points out of an available 50 in the passing
test.Beckham finished the competition 36 points behind Emam, but it is
unlikely Ferguson would consider a swap deal involving the players!